Post to Twitter with Ruby
23. March 2012
Just few hours ago I added the feature that new blog posts are posted to my Twitter account. With the twitter gem only a few lines of code necessary:
require 'twitter' twitter = Twitter.new({ :consumer_key => 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY', :consumer_secret => 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET', :oauth_token => 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN', :oauth_token_secret => 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET' }) twitter.update('Hello world!') Shorten URIs with bitly gem is as simple as posting to twitter, too:
require 'bitly' Bitly.use_api_version_3 bitly = Bitly.new('YOUR_USERNAME', 'YOUR_API_KEY') short_url = bitly.…